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Whatsapp on Unix (or Linux)

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post about free whatsapp softwares. So I thought I give it a try. After some initial troubles and a lot of startpaging I finally got it running.

Step 1: Registration

If you already have whatsapp installed on a phone you can extract the password from there. The web will tell you how…

I didn’t have whatsapp installed so I had to register. My choice was installing yowsup. But the problem is that packaged versions don’t work anymore. So I had to download and install the latest version.

Since I got an SSL error I had to patch the file yowsup/common/http/warequest.py. On line 5 I added:import ssl